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...One hundred and forty-nine members of the Buildings and Services Union care for about 1035 on-campus girls. This amounts to one-and-a-half employees for every ten girls--a rather high ratio for people with very little income and young enough to need little service, especially when the cost of this luxury could soon rise above the ability of many to pay. The obvious answer is to let Cliffies take care of themselves...
...since becoming Vice President. He will be returning to a lot of them, of course, and to speed his way he has chartered an imposingly appointed Boeing 727 that will replace his aging official Convair. The President flies in Air Force One, the Veep in Two; Humphrey aides have been calling his plane Air Force One-and-a-Half for some time. This week he is scheduled to visit Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois...
...offer a different interpretation of the action taken by the Committee on Educational Policy. You implied that the CEP, motivated by a belief in the existence of "the conflict between ROTC's privileged place on campus and Harvard's academic standards," revised the NROTC curriculum "by chopping one-and-a-half credit courses out of the NROTC program" and adding "some solid college courses." Actually, the Navy proposed these changes, not the college, in an effort to improve its students' education. The CEP's action is rightly seen as preliminary, not as agreement with the Crimson's often-stated view...
...Committee on Educational Policy showed Wednesday that the Faculty is not insensitive to the conflict between ROTC's privileged place on campus and Harvard's academic standards. By chopping one-and-a-half credit courses out of the NROTC program the CEP rightly recognized that uniform regulations and nuances of military leadership have no place in the College curriculum...
...Reynolds didn't only miss the deadlocking point once, but twice. With the score 14-13 in the third quarter, Reynolds kicked wide to the right, but the little Indians were offside. The referee spotted the ball on the one-and-a-half, but Coach Henry Lamar decided not to try for a two-point conversion. He stuck with Reynolds, who placed the second boot about where he had put the first...